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Debutantes are distinguished not only by their frilly dresses, but also by their regional affiliation??namely, North or South. As a New York City debutante, Stovell says that though the ball was a significant expense, she could see it being worse. “I think the South is just crazy,” she says. “Ours is a big party for 20 girls, not for one girl. In the South, I can see people spending $50,000 on a party.” Young women who have experienced it first-hand admit that debuts...
Summers and the deans’ statement also went a step farther than the interpretation by recommending that students who cause a disruption while occupying buildings—regardless of Harvard affiliation??should be suspended...
...term “faith-based,” applied frequently by “compassionate conservatives,” including our current president. It is “employed to suggest that certain worthy organizations have been prevented from receiving government funding solely by virtue of their religious affiliation??—even though only “pervasively sectarian” organizations are denied aid, not all “religiously affiliated” charities. Didion suggests that these terms are a smokescreen designed to hide from the American people a truth they...